Abstract
A growing number of robotics labs cooperate in the “Blender for Robotics” project [4], to integrate the open source computer animation program Blender into their research. In the first place as a visualisation tool, but gradually more and more as a full-fledged component in a robot simulation and programming environment. The lab in Leuven focuses on improving Blender support for the task specification and control of complex, sensor-based robot tasks, in which also the motion of the human(s) interacting with the task must be tracked.
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Buys, K., De Laet, T., Smits, R., Bruyninckx, H. (2010). Blender for Robotics: Integration into the Leuven Paradigm for Robot Task Specification and Human Motion Estimation. In: Ando, N., Balakirsky, S., Hemker, T., Reggiani, M., von Stryk, O. (eds) Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots. SIMPAR 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6472. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17319-6_5
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